Govt mulls new method to prevent question leak

RAB detain 13 over SSC Chemistry question paper leak

FE Team | Published: February 16, 2018 00:12:23

The government is planning to introduce a new method of public examinations from the next year in a bid to prevent the widespread question leakage across the country, said Secondary and Higher Education Division Secretary Sohrab Hossain on Thursday, reports UNB.
Talking to reporters at the secretariat, Sohrab said, "The public exams will be held in a new method from the next year. We're trying to formulate such a method when there'll be no possibility of question paper leak."
He further said, "The fresh method will be introduced in consultation with eminent people and taking the advice of scholars into consideration."
"Around 27,000 to 28,000 people are involved in the process of printing question papers and reaching those to the examination centers. In this process, no one can ensure that question papers won't be leaked," he added.
Replying to a query of reporters about a High Court rule that sought explanation from the government over its failure and inaction to prevent the leakage of question papers, Sohrab Hossain said: "We've not received the court directive yet, but we'll obey its order once we receive it."
The High Court ordered on Thursday a judicial probe into the allegations of question paper leakage in the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations and issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why their failure and inaction to prevent the leakage of question papers should not be declared illegal and unlawful.
More news from Natore adds: members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 13 people, including 10 students, for their alleged involvement in leaking out Chemistry question paper of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination in Lalpur upazila on Thursday.
All of them were picked up from Chandpur High School exam centre in the upazila around 9am, said Rab-5 sources.
RAB officials said tipped off, a team of RAB-5 went to the school and searched mobile phones of the examinees. As the question paper received through mobile phones was found to be similar to original question paper, they arrested 13 people, including 10 students and one teacher, from the centre.